Robert Nelson

Johnson & Johnson Senior Director, Pediatric Drug Development

Robert “Skip” Nelson, MD, MDiv, PhD. is currently Senior Director, Pediatric Product Development and Pediatric Development Team Lead in Immunology at Johnson & Johnson. Previously, he was the Deputy Director and Senior Pediatric Ethicist in the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Prior to joining FDA full-time in 2009, he was Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.